Improvement in tobacco-packages



m m m m P. cAvHAPfi. TOBACCO-PACKAGE.

Patented April 17, 1877.

N-PEFERS, PfiOTO-UTHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. D C,

UNITED. STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PIERRE OAUHAPE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND ERNEST GREENFIELD, OF SAME PLACE.

IN! PROVEM ENT IN TOBACCO-PACKAGES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 189,604, dated April 17, 1877; application filed February 17, 1877.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, PIERRE OAUEAPE, of the city, county, andState of New York, have invented a new and Improved Tobacco-Package, of which the following is a specification:

able size, and covered by a layer of elastic gelatinous substance.

In the drawing, A represents a tobaccopackage of suitable size, formed of leaf or cut tobacco as prepared for chewing, smoking, or other purposes.

The package A is dipped into a mixture of gelatine, honey, and gum-arable, which forms, when dry, a covering-layer, B, of great elasticity.

The tobacco is, by the gelatinous layer B,

tobacco that has to be shipped across the ocean, as the tobacco is fully protected against the salt-water air, and not injured thereby.

The covering-layer may be placed directly on the tobacco, and the package then wrapped up, or the package, covered with the paper, may be dipped into the gelatinous substance, as desired. In either case the tobacco is fully protected and preserved with its original flavor and moisture.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent A tobacco-package covered with a mixture of honey, gum-arabic, and gelatine, as and for the purpose specified.

PIERRE OAUHAPE.

Witnesses:

PAUL GoEPEL, C. SEDGWIGK. 

